March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
12h 48m
English
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Afterword
If you’ve read the whole of this book, you might be thinking something very similar to the feedback an early reviewer gave to me: “Now you have microservices. It will suck. Anyway, you’re depressed now. Bye!”
I’ve focused in this book on the challenges of microservices because that’s the way I tend to approach stuff. Tackling problems is the reason I’m a software engineer, and the aim of this book is to help you be successful with microservices.
While there are challenges, there are lots of positives as well, and I want to focus on those here. Microservices are the right approach in a lot of cases, and they are getting easier to adopt.
In this afterword I want to explain why I think that.
Why Microservices?
People have been building microservices for over a decade now, which means we have a lot of experience about how to do them effectively.
They are a mainstream choice, suggested as a good option by research into what makes for a high-performing technology organization; fitting well with a move to cross-functional autonomous teams; and supported by the rise of a new type of platform engineering, one with a focus on reducing the cognitive load on development teams and enabling them to focus on delivering business value.
The Importance of Flow
We are approaching a decade of State of DevOps reports from the DORA team, and over 36,000 software engineering professionals have contributed to this body of research.
The findings are consistent: for software delivery that has ...
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